Mistletone Presents

Perfume Genius

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🕊 Mistletone very proudly summons Perfume Genius back to illuminate Brisbane with a headline show at The Zoo, tickets on sale now! 🕊

FEATURING - THE GOON SAX

Known early as a poster-wraith for notorious, joyous, tortured and free boys, girls and their fellow travelers, the first two albums by Perfume Genius consisted largely of exquisite and cruelly abbreviated songs seemingly sung in the dark at a piano with all the silences left in. The previously most recent album, 2014’s Too Bright, stepped out saucily onto a bigger stage, expressing, with the production help of Adrian Utley, emotions arranged all along the slippery continuum from rage to irony to love. Now here we have seized the vocabulary of the full expression of all music.

WHAT IS THISHere in 13 ferocious and sophisticated tracks, Mike Hadreas and his collaborators blow through church music, makeout music, an array of the gothier radio popular formats, rhythm and blues, art pop, krautrock, queer soul, the RCA Studio B sound, and then also collect some of the sounds that only exist inside Freddy Krueger. Tremolo on the electric keys. Nightclubbing. Daywalking. Peter Greenawaying, Springsteening, Syreetaing.WHYLuridness was a quality of music in the 1960s that is mostly since shunned. The big male crooners were all fiercely lurid as an expression of passion or lustiness or general dickability. That’s something perfect to take back. You took us to church and told us to believe in ghosts. You took us to school and told us to believe in the great American project of inclusion. Instead we started fucking to the great American project of rock and roll. There’s more than one sexy soul song here. Seduction is also spellcraft. Rock and roll was an incantation, a beg to give it up baby. It’s not that different from begging Some Thing to not let you die when you are alone and afraid.

A QUICK BREAK ABOUT HOWBlake Mills — the one who produced the Alabama Shakes record and who performs with John Legend — produced the record with precision and expansion. Some things are pretty and some are blasted beyond recognition. In the studio with Shawn the engineer, Mike and Blake would hear quite different voices as they worked and they built this together.

MORE ON THE TOPIC OF WHYGod is all around actually and some of these songs are about being equal and some are about the witchcraft of believing. This is church music the same way Prince’s Black Album is — too dirty. It’s femme art pop the way Kate Bush’s The Dreaming is — too scary. Prayer is indistinguishable from OCD but feels a lot cleaner.

LIFE IS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE EACH STRIVE FOR HAPPINESS1. “I felt like when I made these other albums, people were like why are you talking about thesethings, and now people are going to be like, why aren’t you talking about these things, because everything’s so terrible. I’m never not talking about it. My life is existing in the fucking face of it. My music will always be in protest.”2. “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, are more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with these songs. There’s something freeing about how I don’t have it figured out. Unpacking little morsels, magnifying my discomfort, wading through buried harm, laughing at or digging in to the embarrassing drama of it all. I may never come out the other side but it’s invigorating to try and hopefully, ultimately helpful. I think a lot of them are about trying to be happy in the face of whatever bullshit I created for myself or how horrible everything and everyone is.”3. “I can steal from people that are on the inside and act as if. I created my whole identity around never being on the inside.”

LISTENING INWho gets to live now? That’s a question up for active international debate. Lots of folks are getting a clear view into what they all think of us. When we can, we should not have to care. You should feel great listening here, even when you’re sad. Our job is to find love and connection and goodness. Records like this, records that make you feel like you’re 15 and just seeing the truth for the first time, are excessively rare. They’re here to remind you that you’re divine.

--Choire Sicha

This is an 18+ event.

* Over 18's only unless advertised otherwise. * Photo ID is essential,­ acceptable ID is a current and valid Australian Photo Drivers Licence or Passport. Please check with the venue for any other acceptable forms of photo ID * All children under 18 not permitted including small children and babies * Intoxicated persons will not be admitted * No thongs or steel cap boots * The venue reserves the right to refuse admission to any person * Dangerous behaviour including Crowd Surfing, Stage Diving, Moshing and Violent Dancing is not allowed and will result in your immediate removal from this venue.*Inappropriate behaviour at this venue will lead to your banning.*

Things to know about when coming to the Zoo ....
1. everyone is welcome
2. we don't have a dress code
3. you must be over 18 to attend
4. we practise responsible service of alcohol
5. we provide free water
6. we do not serve rum
7. we don't serve double shots
8. we don't have a cloak room
9. we are wheelchair friendly - non-motorised wheelchairs only
(please always call ahead to organise assistance with entry)
10. there is a taxi rank located outside
11. mcwhirters car park is located across the road
12. we are a please and thank you venue
13. we are a standing room only venue, no allocated seating provided
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No recording or photographic equipment is allowed to be brought into the Zoo.

Please do not record the event unless you have gained permission from the venue and the performing act themselves, this also applies to patron crowd shots as well.

Anyone caught doing so, with out pre arranged consent will have their gear confiscated until the end of the night.

Thank you in advance for your understanding on this issue.

General Tips

- Everyone is welcome.
- We don't have a dress code.
- You must be over 18 to attend.
- We practice responsible service of alcohol.
- We provide free water.
- We don't serve rum.
- We don't serve double shots.
- We don't have a cloak room.
- We are wheelchair friendly (but please ring ahead to let us know).
- There is a taxi rank located outside.
- McWhirters carpark is located across the road.
- We are a please and thank you venue.

Age Restrictions

The Zoo is an over 18 venue only.
Due to our licence we cannot allow any minors onto the premise.
To gain entry you are required to produce one of the following forms of ID:
- driver licence
- passport
- 18 plus card.
(student cards are not valid forms of ID).

Smoking

If you are a smoker, you are required to go outside the front of the building and partake there.

B.C.C now has weekend patrols that monitor and fine people who put butts out on the footpath!!! THE FINE IS $200 and they regularly sweep our area.

We do provide 2 bins at the front of the venue to place your butts in, if not you will end up $200 poorer.

**PLEASE NOTE - all forms of smoking are to take place outside the venue in our allocated smoking area, this includes vaping (e-cigarettes).